Simply amazing to ride for a day and have SO many rest stops filled with SO many people clapping and cheering! Should we discuss the food and refreshments provided? I chose to ride aggresively between stops to be certain ALL the consumed products eaten at the last stop were completely digested and burned off before arriving at the next stop.
Here is the other observation...many of the well wishers actually engaged in proactive conversations with sincere curosity. Once they learned your name and home town location, they wanted to know about your well being, where you started, how far to you intend to travel, etc. In some cases, we had to pull ourselves away from all the questions to continue on to the next stop. (Pictures will follow soon due to some technical challenges.)
By the way...comments posted to this Blog site were read to tonite for the first time. My apologies for not paying attention to this feature when using blog sites.
Danae, our 4th of 6 children, chose to drive to Chatham, ON Canada and drop me off so I could rejoin the tour. Soon after arriving, a time trial event was discussed with others. There were some restrictions. One, you had to ride out about 40 Km and in order to arrive at the start line before 9:00am. Second, you had to register the day before!?!?
Anyways, the 9:00am deadline was met. The registration effort was accomplished with a permanent marker number scrolled on my right leg calf, "30". I felt "attached" to an elite group of cyclists. Each of the 30 cyclists started fully clipped and launched after one minute intervals. We were to race against the clock for another 40 Km. There was a slight head wind and a slight up hill grade. Breaking time without an age compensated bhandicap was one hour and 18 minutes! The equates to 18.74 mph! I was number 20! However, if there was an age handicap, a sixty year old guy beat me by 7 minutes.
(Pictures arrive during the weekend Stay tuned.)
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Great to hear you can almost beat a 60 year old, now you know you have to give a little more umph to get it done. Great improvement from 2 months ago.
Read Gayle's blog about you and the London arrival, I'm glad she's taking you along on her adventures.
Wow, good job, now you know how much harder to push to beat the 60 year old. 18+ miles per hour, uphill with a head wind, for over an hour, what a statement from where you were 2 months ago.
Deb
Wow, good job, now you know how much harder to push to beat the 60 year old. 18+ miles per hour, uphill with a head wind, for over an hour, what a statement from where you were 2 months ago.
Deb
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